Children have no pragmatic value in an industrialised society. in fact, they're a liability.
Then again, the human race isn't noted for pragmatism.
Not all these cultural rituals and traditions. Why are they there? Why were they implimented? A lot of them cost quite a bit. Could it be. . .economy? (In my best Saturday Night Live, 'Church Lady' voice.) Everyone else's economy, that is. NOT the one supporting the ritual. Same with keeping terminal patients alive as long as possible, amongst other things. More money for the medical establishment.
Imagine how much money would be taken out of the system if there were no more marriages, divorces, funerals, burials, and everyone got cremated? No more Christmas shopping, which has about as much to do with the alleged holiday spirit that everyone feigns, as a nuclear war.
Not my problem, though. Not guilty of any of it.
Yet, somebody owes me a poem!
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